This is largely a difference in name only—different hospitals and medical institutions can use different names for technicians in sterile processing department.
Job roles and responsibilities are always unique to each facility, but in a general sense there is very little difference between a “central service” and “sterile processing” technician.
Learn more about how to become a sterile processing technician
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